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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION 



ANNUAL MEETING AT SCARBOROUGH. 



The Annual Meetings of the Union are not so popular as the 

 excursions, for they are almost wholly of a business nature, and, 

 niorcover, are held at a proverbially dull season of the year. With 

 regard, however, to the 30th Annual Meeting held at Scarborough 

 On the 14th November last, it was with respect both to the attend- 

 ance and the interest maintained, an unqualified success. Perhaps 

 ^o place in the county— or out of it — could have been chosen more 

 attractive to Yorkshire people than Scarborough. The Meeting had 

 been fixed for Saturday, in order that the Aveek-end might be spent 

 3-t the sea-side. Arrangements had been made by means of which 

 Members and Associates taking tickets on Friday or Saturday, might 

 return on the following Monday or Tuesday. In addition to this the 

 North Eastern Railway Company had, at the instigation of the Union, 

 kindly run an excursion train from West Yorkshire, which enabled 

 persons attending the meeting to return to their homes the same 

 evening if desired. Quite one-third of the number of members 

 attending the excursion took advantage of the arrangements for 

 spending Sunday at this popular watering-place. The weather also 

 "Was as delightful as could possibly be wished. 



The local efforts to make the meeting a success had also been 

 as strenuous as possible. By the kindness of the Scarborough 

 Philosophical Society the Museum was placed entirely at the disposal 

 of the Union, and this Society, together with the Field Naturalists' 

 Club, invited the visitors to a conversazione, at which many valuable 

 and interesting objects were to be shown, the most attractive exhibit 

 Undoubtedly being Mr, Alderman Champley's unrivalled series of 

 nine authentic eggs of the Great Auk. 



The proceedings commenced at 3 o'clock, when the Sectional 

 Meetings were held in the various rooms of the Museum, after which 

 a Conference of the Committees of Research took place. At 4 o'clock 

 l^ne General Committee met in the Library. Sixteen affiliated Societies 

 Were represented, nine of them being by direct delegation and the 

 i"emaining seven by permanent members of the General Committee.' 

 fte attendance also included the President (Prof. A. H. Green, 

 ^.R.S., F.G.S.), the President-elect (Mr. Charles P. Hobkirk, F.L.S.),, 

 two of the Hon. Secretaries (Messrs. Wm. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., 

 and Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S.), four members of the Executive, three 

 Presidents and five Secretaries of Sections, four local Treasurers, and 

 twelve other permanent members of the General Committee, making 

 a total of forty-three. 



^^arch 1892. 



